The Little World

Especially if you have been killing off people’s enthusiasm with it for years.

This sentiment applies to a lot of things; hobby publications, exhibition organisation, and box-scale kits come to mind.

The magazines we loved to buy are slowly giving way to YouTube presentations that take up hours of our time for minutes of information. The only advantage we have is not having to store and catalogue old paper to keep our references.

The exhibition committee opportunities? Well, they are hard work, made harder by organisational needs. When one set of officials tire of it they may be hard pressed to attract replacements.

Old kits? Well, the makers have to decide whether to sell them as nostalgia at a lower price or as re-boxes at a new one. The commercial choice may cause people to decide to continue with the hobby or give it away. You can only make yourself feel warm and fuzzy remembering your child hood for so long. Eventually you start to remember your adolescence and long to break out in pimples.